Could I get a Christian to answer my Satan question with something more substantative then no satan is real?

Question

Typically when an atheist talks to a Christian we get answers like no its just cause or no its in the Bible or no we have faith or no your wrong.

Could I get something of substance to my question is belief in Satan comparable to my son's belief in monsters in his bedroom.

I'd really like something more than "no satan is real"

Answer 1

Jim, if you're not going to be happy with answers like "because my momma said so", "because an old book says so", "because my momma says an old book says so", "because my pastor said so", "because my mamma said my pastor said an old book says so", then why are you asking the question?

You already know there's no substantiative difference between belief in Satan and belief in a monster under the bed.

Answer 2

Ok.. all the answers so far are just as crap as this person said they didnt want! They all say something about the bible saying so and what not..

There still is no substance. Therefore, you're all sheep and you've all been brainwashed.

I like the answer about good and evil, because it's true. But, that doesnt' mean there's a satan. That's like saying if a=b and b=c then a=c. That's not always true.

You idiots need to stop listening to your preachers for a minute and look at the world. Stop living in your own little perfectly religious life and stop giving your church money when the rest of the world is in such a hole.

If people would just live with each other and stop trying to push faith onto each other, life would be so much easier. I don't care if you believe in god, just stop saying I'm ignorant just because I don't!!

Otherwise you're just sending YOURSELF to hell, because it's what your God doesn't want.

Have a nice day.

Answer 3

Belief in Satan implies a belief in God because evil is the absence of God and good. Satan is believed to be a rebellious angel who was cast out heaven. No one, not even Albert Einstein, has been able to prove the existence of God and therefore no one can prove the existence of Satan. As a personal note, I am a Christian and have a strong faith but I also have an open mind and question many things. Does Satan exist? I think that he does but I try not to think too much on the subject and focus my attention on the beauty and peace in God.

Your son's bedroom monsters are probably quite real to him. It is possible that children perceive things that adults are no longer open to seeing. We like to call this perception "make believe" or "pretend". What if there really are "monsters" that we can't see or don't notice? It is entirely possible that your son is actually seeing things that you can't or feeling things that you can't. Taking that into consideration, the monsters may also be manifestations of your son's fear of the dark and unknown. Who knows what lurks under your bed at night? I have been attacked by creatures lurking underneath my bed, later identified as my cats, and it was a bit frightening in the middle of the night when I was not expecting it.

As an unsolicited solution to the monsters - tell them to leave, loudly and in front of your son. You can then "scare" them off by banging pots and pans and shining lights under the bed and in the closet. My mother got rid of the "bears" in my bedroom that way and those bad bears never came back. I do hope this helps.

Answer 4

I would think it depends on what you are using to evaluate it.

If I were to not use the Bible as a base, then I could make the argument that yes, your two items are comparable. Both are intangible, both tend to scare people, and both are associated with darkness or activity at night.

However, if I used a faith based argument I would say that they are similar but not truly comparable. Insert all that I mentioned before, but add the power of influence. Without arguing that bedroom monsters do or don't exist, I would say that Satan has much farther reaching methods of deceit. While monsters are looking to scare children in their bedroom (a narrow target market), Satan is concerned with separating mankind from God. The purposes are different, even if you are atheist I would think that is a reasonable argument.

Answer 5

I am not exactly sure of the question but I will give it a go. If you are asking is Satan real and can you substantiate your answer than this is what I have to say. If you believe in the scientific axiom that for every action their is a equal and opposite reaction. then is there is a epitome for good (god) than there is a apex for evil (Satan). this principle is expressed in electric with positive and negative charges, in magnetism and so on and on. Interestingly though in Judaism Satan was not such a big villain he was an advocate for man, Christianity is when his powers started to epitomize evil. Especially with the rise of the protestants schism with Catholicism when fire and brimstone became a reason for religion to scare people into their beliefs.

Answer 6

Well first off you say your an Atheist (we get answers) but you don't specify if you believe in Satan or not, You asked if the belief in Satan is comparable to you're sons belief in monsters in his bedroom. NO, not at all.
Remember Satan was God's most perfect Angel, when God banished Satan he took a 3rd of the Angels with him. It was a power struggle if you ask me.
Anyway if you are an Atheist and the concern for belief is directed to you, how can you believe in something GOD created?
That is my question. Please E-mail me your opinion.

Answer 7

I assume from your statement that you are an atheist. And that you do not believe in God. One of the very things that Satan wants is that people turn away from God and even if they will not worship him at least they are not worshiping God. Without knowing why you do not believe in God I cannot answer your question more completely. You see to consciously not to believe in something is to reject something that may exist. Yes it is a roundabout way to say that subconsciously you may believe that there is a God but that you choose not to believe in his existance. I am not trying to be a spin doctor in this, nor am I trying to degrade your personal belief. Your not wanting to believe that there is a God may have its roots deeply ingrained in something that happened early in your life or just recently. I have no way of telling.

I hope that you will at least consider the posibility that God does exist and with an open mind consider the article linked below.

I believe and hope, that the article will give you some of the answers you are looking for.

There are those two words that I just seem not to shy away from, belief and hope. Those two words together with knoweldge are basic to faith.

Answer 8

Do you really understand metaphor. Mainstream Christians, Muslims, Jews and others, see Satan as the other side of the bell curve from GOD. A physical manifestation of the worst of mankind.
So, Satan is real, living inside us all. Pick up some books on philosophy. Open your mind.

Answer 9

Well I'll try. Many years ago when I was a young teen some friends of mine and I were spending the night together and we decided to "play" with a Ouija board. Now we didn't "believe' in it we fully "knew" that we were the ones moving it.We asked all sorts of questions especially the ones we always heard you shouldn't ask like death and such. After we grew bored with it we put it up and sat around giggling as played board games. Then we went to bed. No adults were home yet as the girls parents had gone out to a party. As soon as we were in bed and turned out the lights we all 4 could see a dark shrouded figure standing beside our bed. No one could see it's face. We were terrified. We could not move and we could not scream. We could smell a very foul odor like something dead and decaying. We felt sheer raw terror. We began to pray every prayer we could remember. After several minutes of praying the figure vanished and we could smell roses in the room. We through out the Ouija board and I have not nor will I ever touch one again. You decide. I believe what we saw was Satan or one of his demons. I believe who rescued us was our Mother Mary. Which we invoked and we could smell roses which are associated with her. I can only assure you 4 girls would not have seen the same thing and tell the same story unless it happened.

Peace of Christ,
Debra

Answer 10

Well your question has both a yes and a no answer.
Yes satan is comparable to your son's belief in monsters in his bedroom, because people believes that he exists, although no one has ever seen him. They fear him, and it is comparable to the fear a child has in monsters/ghosts etc.
No satan is not comparable to your son's belief in monsters in his bedroom, because if you think of all the evil in the world, satan basically lives inside all of us, and we can all be evil, satan is labelled as a demon, and we all have inner demons. Think of all the murderers, rapists etc. These people have demons, which a lot of christians believe is satans work.

Is that more supstantial?

Answer 11

Typically, Christians will answer with something comparable to "it's in the Bible," since that, after all, is the record and source of many of our beliefs and practices.

Going beyond that, one could start with instances of demonic possession, some of which are historically explicable as psychological phenomena, others not so clearly. (However, if one is predisposed not to believe in Satan, then all of these will no doubt be thought of as unexplainable psychological issues.)

One could posit that the existence of so many works of "imagination" which deal with evil beings and spirits (Christian or otherwise) indicates that the archetype has at its core some sort of evil being.

-j.